September 2005 - Angus Logan

Question: Does the Kool-aid taste better at the source?

Yes Full points to my buddy Alistair for the question :)

Published Wed, Sep 28 2005 9:44 PM by anguslogan

WSS SP2 is now available

Ok so Andrew beat me to the punch on this one but I was sitting next to him when he blogged it so I take part credit. Via Andrew Connell WSS SP2 is now available: MSFT WSS SP2 Aside from a hotfix rollup, the following features/capabilities that are provided...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2005 8:05 AM by anguslogan

Office 2003 Service Pack 2 - RELEASED!

Via Ed Bott If you subscribe to Microsoft Update, this should show up automatically in the next few days, but you can download it here: Office 2003 Service Pack 2 The most interesting change is the addition of a new Phishing Protection feature to the...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2005 8:04 AM by anguslogan

Achieve Forms Lite 2.0 Update

We have the pleasure of announcing AFLite 2.0, the next big step for AFLite. The three major things that AFLite users have been asking for have been a SharePoint integration, more forms and multi-lingual support. You got them all. -AFLite for SharePoint...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2005 3:30 AM by anguslogan

Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager looks wicked.

Via Microsoft Research Outlook Mobile Manager (OMM) acts as a full-time dedicated secretary, relaying urgent emails and reminders about meetings and tasks to a user's cell phone or other mobile device when users are in mobile settings. The system considers...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2005 9:12 AM by anguslogan

Vista registry hack for IBM T41 Notebook

Via Chris Perillo I'm not sure if this is for public consumption, but I've learned about a workaround for my Windows Vista build 5219 LCD resolution hiccup (wherein the screen won't slide past 800x600). I've confirmed through a new digital friend that...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2005 9:03 AM by anguslogan

The dull blog is quite funny

Check it out: http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/ Gems like: " I was sitting down on one of the chairs in my house. My hand was resting on the arm of the chair. I started to drum my fingers on the arm, thereby making a barely audible sound. "

Published Mon, Sep 26 2005 5:50 PM by anguslogan

Cool - Microsoft's management is using blogs to commincate to Staff

A couple of hours ago I blogged about Steven Sinofsky posting re. What do manages do and how big should my team be? . He's now posted in response to a comment and the thing that caught my eye was: Hi there Anonymous (btw, if you work at Microsoft and...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2005 12:52 PM by anguslogan

Hanging out on Campus is Fun! + Braindump

The past week I have had a great opportunity to hang out with some really really smart people on the WCM (Web Content Management) aka. CMS team at Microsoft's Redmond Campus Firstly - I didn't know the CMS team was as big as it is and it seems that every...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2005 12:22 PM by anguslogan

Steve Sinofsky's essay on Management @ Microsoft

Steven Sinofsky wrote a great post called What do managers do and how big should my team be? Below is an extract Today I thought I would talk a little about a topic related to how we manage feature teams in Office. For those of you considering working...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2005 10:10 AM by anguslogan

Who said Seattle has bad Weather???

Since I've been here its rained for about 15 minutes and that wasn't really rain. Its been warm, sunny and fun! Check out the pictures here

Published Mon, Sep 26 2005 9:35 AM by anguslogan

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta

My buddy Christopher Walker shoots me emails saying "Hey gus, have you seen this?" Usually its like "Yeah I've already blogged it - www.anguslogan.com ..." BUT... Today, Christopher Walker shot me a link to the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta...

Published Mon, Sep 26 2005 9:11 AM by anguslogan

Hanging w/ Telerik @ PDC

I know PDC was a week ago but I just managed to get my hands on the pictures. I got to hang out with the guys from Telerik during PDC on their booth and then Spence and i went out with them for dinner/drinks etc. Check out the pictures here I also had...

Published Sun, Sep 25 2005 9:57 AM by anguslogan

Filed under: Content Management Server

Check out Lawrence Liu's Blog

I've just started reading Lawrence Liu, Senior Product Manager @ Microsoft's blog. Really good read - Check it out here

Published Sat, Sep 24 2005 10:23 AM by anguslogan

MindManager 6 released today

Via Craig Pringle Today is the day – MindManager 6 has been released. I’ve now got the full and final version from Mindjet ( earlier posting was based on the release candidate) and will be writing a full review soon. Stay tuned.

Published Thu, Sep 22 2005 9:32 AM by anguslogan

Yahoo! Weather RSS Feeds

Here is Brisbane, QLD's (where I live) and here is Seattle (where I am) until the 7th. Via Steve Rubel Yahoo! now provides weather information via RSS . Here's a feed for New York City weather .

Published Thu, Sep 22 2005 9:30 AM by anguslogan

Competitive Analysis: Choosing BizTalk Server Over IBM WebSphere Integration Server v5

Via JOPX Interesting post by Scott Woodgate - Competitive Analysis: Choosing BizTalk Server Over IBM WebSphere Integration Server v5

Published Thu, Sep 22 2005 9:09 AM by anguslogan

CMSVNext and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - another braindump and a stroll through some blogs...

Via JOPX One of the pillars of Microsoft's new ECM (Enterprise Content Management Offering) is web content management, previously Microsoft had its own server product for it, Microsoft Content Management Server . At PDC05, Microsoft finally revealed some...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2005 9:05 AM by anguslogan

Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

Cool Atlas Server Control

Catching up on things that should have been blogged earlier: Via Paul Glavich I have been running through the Atlas hands on labs provided by Microsoft lately and really sinking my teeth into Atlas. In a previous post , I showed some of the declarative...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2005 9:03 AM by anguslogan

LCS ports used for communication

Via Eileen Brown Gary wondered if there was a kb article that detailed the ports that LCS used to communicate between client and server. Well Gary, all I could find is a list of the basic ports used when LCS 2005 talks to Windows messenger . here you...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2005 9:00 AM by anguslogan